In the early 1990s Dan Terpstra was playing in a few bands and decided it was time to capture some of the sound. With a few ElectroVoice and lower end Microphones, he bought a Fostex 280 4-Track Recorder and proceeded to help out his friends. With expanding mixers and microphones the projects became big enough to install the confidence to move to Tennessee. Very little recording was done on
the 4-Track except personal songs at that time which saw the expansion of Cakewalk on a Windows computer sync'd to the Fostex giving 3 tracks and unlimited virtual sequencing. Life changed dramatically with some frustration happening in the Nashville area so in 1997 things came back to Grand Rapids. A few little recordings happened during that time but in July of 2000 Dan bought an ADAT from a yet unknown Jad Abumrad. A couple bands came over to record in the new Digital Medium with surprising results but the weakness of lower quality Mic Pre-Amps and mixers still held the sound back. After starting a business in the Photography Industry, the music creation and recording had all but disappeared in December of 2003 but in 2011 a new ProTools system began experimentation which lead to Logic, a new computer, Logic X, and eventually Studio One by PreSonus in April 2016. Expansion began quickly and with the Zedi 10 mixer proving to be too limited for band work, the inclusion of the Antelope Audio Orion Studio Pro as well as Golden Age Pre-Amps and Compressors. At this moment, the gear list (aside from the aforementioned software and interfaces) is:
Large Diaphragm Condensors:
Neumann U87
AKG C414
Rhode N1
CAD E-100
Small Diaphragm Condensors:
Oktava MK012 (x2)
Audio Technica AMT-33R
Nakamichi CM300 Omni or Cardiod
Shure 809 Surface Mount
Large Diaphragm Dynamic:
AKG D112
Small Diaphragm Dynamic:
Shure SM57 (x4)
Shure SM7B
Shure SM58
EV ND/457 (x2)
EV ND/357
Samson Q72 (x3)
and more…
Headphones
Sony MDR7506 (x4)
Audio Technica ATH-M50X
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